Planning[edit]

	FACES;
	Scope · Functionalities; Disclaimer and Copyright ; Support ;
	Application Profiles; Release Agreement;
	Specification:; Browse and Display · Search; Albums · Users; Note Pads · Versioning;
	Related Projects:; Imeji ;
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The prototype of Faces will be developed in several steps (releases). In each release, the following functionalities will be implemented.

Enhancement of the search (age group search functionality, search within an public album)
Public (published) albums
Selection of Pictures (adding)
Multiple sorting
Export
Help functionality (linking between the help icons "?" within the application and the help page)

Going productive!

User Management (Basic, via Admin solution)
Basic statistics
Extraction (via jhove) and saving (in a separate metadata file) of technical metadata
Display of technical MD
Revision of Help (texts)
New Home Page for Faces (no special Faces logo, only the MPIB logo)
Integration of a blog for the creation of a news box on the start page

Virtual release! - prepare FACES for a generic usage

Surrogate items
Enabling of generic integration of metadata profiles (NIMS, MPI zur Erforschung multi-religiouser u. -ethnischer Gesellschaften)

No functional Prototype needed for this release, as no 'visible' changes.

Sharing of albums with other users (incl. user privileges, tracking of changes)
Note pad for albums
Copy album content
Merge album content
Integration of Digilib
1. in a separate window
2. fully integrated in the Faces GUI
Versioning: View album event log
Simplified breadcrumb navigation (Last Album View, Last Image View)
Screencast

Not bevore Spring 2010

Usage of an online application form (see Faces User Management)
Persistent Identifier (PID) - depends on when the gwdg can provide this functionality
User Management that can be managed by the institute, not the MPDL (see Faces User Management)

Expectations[edit]

Faces will be a service based on the eSciDoc infrastructure for publishing digital images (incl. a user management for all users who work with faces).
The institute’s and department-specific corporate design will be visible in the web design of the solution.
The content of the collection Faces will be digitally preserved and persistently identified.
The data from the currently available Faces database will be integrated.
The data of the collection Faces is not published as open access, except for the data of the six predefined persons who gave explicit publishing permission.
Faces will be a closed collection, so the import of further images is not possible once the application is running.
The application will support the future integration of further attributes (e.g from the normstudy).
Once the application is running, it can't be changed without the permission of the institute.
The MPI has fully administrator rights for the application.

Faces will be delivered as an open source self-contained web application, which can be installed and run with predefined standard set-up.
The MPDL will use the FACEs solution as showcase for demonstrating possible research data scenarios based on the infrastructure. The institute's staff will support respective outreach activities by reporting on their experiences.
The MPDL has access to the root account of the application for administration purposes.
The data of Faces will be hosted at the MPDL (and/or its partners like the GWDG), who are also responsible for the server administration. Details will be defined in a service level agreement.